Russians launch over 400 drones and 28 missiles on Ukraine overnight

Oleksandr Shumilin — 22 October 2025, 13:00

A total of 349 Russian aerial assets have been destroyed or jammed. Photo: Ukrainian Air Force

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with more than 400 drones and almost 30 missiles, including 15 ballistic ones, on the night of 21-22 October. Ukrainian air defence forces have shot down or jammed 349 aerial assets.

Source: Ukraine's Air Force on Telegram

Quote: "The enemy carried out a combined strike on Ukrainian critical infrastructure using attack UAVs and air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missiles on the night of 21-22 October (starting at 19:00 on 21 October). Overall, the Air Force air surveillance troops have detected and tracked 433 aerial assets – 28 missiles (15 of them ballistic) and 405 UAVs of various types."

Details: The main target of the attack was Kyiv Oblast. Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Odesa oblasts were also affected.

During the night, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 28 missiles:

11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (launched from Bryansk and Rostov oblasts in Russia, and the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast)
9 Iskander-K cruise missiles (launched from Kursk and Voronezh oblasts in Russia, and temporarily occupied Crimea)
4 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic air-to-surface missiles from Russia's Rostov Oblast
4 Kh-59/69 air-to-surface missiles (launched from the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast).

Ukrainian air defence units shot down or jammed 349 aerial assets:

333 UAVs of Shahed, Geran and other types
8 Iskander-K cruise missiles
6 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles
2 Kh-59/69 guided air-to-surface missiles.

The Air Force reported that 12 missiles and 55 attack drones had hit 26 locations, while debris from downed aerial assets had fallen on 19 sites.

Background:

Four people, including two children, were killed in Kyiv Oblast in Russian attacks on the night of 21-22 October and on the morning of 22 October.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that six people, including two children, had been killed in the combined Russian strike.

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